Alabama mayor keeping it classy

[SeaManatee]

I’m sorry, I just love ideas so much and I hate seeing people try to shame creative thinkers.

[mobiusptc]

@Paul_Thomson

Looks to me like he was brainstorming on solutions to the problems someone was articulating. He admitted that the "solution was “bad”, but presumably he couldn’t [yet] think of a more viable solution. I didn’t think he was advocating killing homosexuals and transgenders as his final position, but rather it seemed to me that he was fishing for alternatives that were better.

Seems like a perfectly acceptable discussion between friends wrestling with a thorny ethical issue, which he perhaps mistakenly thought was happening via private messaging. It’s not the sort of comment you would want to let loose on a public forum though, where most people are not capable of distinguishing between considering all possible options out loud and advocating a settled policy.

So, what solution would others in this forum suggest to the concern that - “We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics”?

At the risk of losing braincells…why is bad in quotation.
Also why do we need a solution when there is no problem?

[biggestal99]

@Borgia_dude

Are you dismissing them as flyover?

2k aint flyover, it walkover.

Allan

[GWH]

Although I don’t think he meant he’d like to implement the plan, kill em off was his ignorant hypothetical solution. There are bigoted dumbasses in this world, this ones a mayor in Alabama.

[biggestal99]

@peek-a-boo

I was with you until you made it about Trump! I guess you just couldn’t help yourself.

nope trump is stupid.

even his cabinet member called him an idiot. and they work with him on a daily basis.

Allan

[JayJay]

@GWH

Although I don’t think he meant he’d like to implement the plan, kill em off was his ignorant hypothetical solution. There are bigoted dumbasses in this world, this ones a mayor in Alabama.

I was trying to be as kind as I possibly could be to the poster to whose rather fanciful “rationalization” I was responding.

[GWH]

Yeah. Got it. The whole thing reminds me of let God sort em out/sheet of glass speak about the ME. The difference being that they’re Americans, of course. Just wrong headed dumbassedry.

[gooddad409]

The guy is an idiot. Period.

[Paul_Thomson]

@mobiusptc

At the risk of losing braincells…why is bad in quotation.
Also why do we need a solution when there is no problem?

Because that’s what the mayor admitted as a disclaimer
in his comment.

You see no problem? You need to learn to at least see an issue from the other person’s perspective, even if you don’t agree with it. Clearly, if the other person sees a problem, then he will be looking for answers to that problem.

[mobiusptc]

oh i can see it from another side but it does not mean there is an actual problem requiring an actual solution. for example:

i disagree completely with Pepsi drinkers. i think they are foolish, silly, and wasting their money. it is however not a problem to me or anyone else and thus requires no solution

as for the “bad” in quotation mark… it does not appear like so in the quote so i ask again why did you decide to put those extra quotations

“The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it’s bad to say but without killing them out there’s no way to fix it.”

[Guvnah]

“The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it’s bad to say but without killing them out there’s no way to fix it.”

The leap to conclusion is that he wants to kill all the problem people. Why not leap to the conclusion that he’s lamenting it’s impossible to fix the problem instead?

[reflechissez]

@Guvnah

“The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it’s bad to say but without killing them out there’s no way to fix it.”

The leap to conclusion is that he wants to kill all the problem people. Why not leap to the conclusion that he’s lamenting it’s impossible to fix the problem instead?

It’s impossible to fix the problem because he can’t kill them. That sounds much better.

[JayJay]

@Guvnah

“The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it’s bad to say but without killing them out there’s no way to fix it.”

The leap to conclusion is that he wants to kill all the problem people. Why not leap to the conclusion that he’s lamenting it’s impossible to fix the problem instead?

That doesn’t make it sound better for him.

Why is it so hard for some of you to call out stupid for being stupid?

[coolidge]

All things end in trump for liberals.

[Plasmaball]

Brainstorming…do you take us for idiots with this nonsense paul?

[vaard]

Very interesting that the right is completely missing the issue that homosexuality is not a problem that needs to be solved…

Very telling that they are trying to defend his solutuon and not recognizing that there is not a problem that needs a solution…

[vaard]

@Paul_Thomson

@mobiusptc

At the risk of losing braincells…why is bad in quotation.
Also why do we need a solution when there is no problem?

Because that’s what the mayor admitted as a disclaimer
in his comment.

You see no problem? You need to learn to at least see an issue from the other person’s perspective, even if you don’t agree with it. Clearly, if the other person sees a problem, then he will be looking for answers to that problem.

The problem is that he sees homosexuality as a problem…

[Bodecea]

@Guvnah

@peek-a-boo

What exactly is the point of this thread?

Republicans == bad.

It’s the daily outrage thread.

Yeah…it’s not as if CRCs aren’t providing plenty of ammo.

[Borgia_dude]

@mobiusptc

i disagree completely with Pepsi drinkers. i think they are foolish, silly, and wasting their money. it is however not a problem to me or anyone else and thus requires no solution

No, the only solution would be to kill the Pepsi drinkers.

[Toll_Collector]

@Borgia_dude

You have a funny way of showing it when you would reelect the person daydreaming about killing innocents.

Is it possible the mayor will feel emboldened if re-elected?

Of course it might. All it means is that he’ll be emboldened to talk more crap.

@Borgia_dude

Is it possible that sort of talk encourages others to hate homosexuals and act on that hate?

Had this tactic not been already used repeatedly I might agree with you. But you guys don’t limit it to extreme situations. You use this as a common tactic to shut down descent or any opinions you might find volatile. People need to speak their mind without worrying about what some maniac might do as a result.

@Borgia_dude

I’d love to see the quote of Pelosi calling for the killing of deplorables. Can you provide a link? I couldn’t google it successfully.

You couldn’t google it successfully because I was making up an example after hypothetically speaking.

@Borgia_dude

As an aside, I would happily vote Republican if the Democrat voiced calling for the murder of Pro-life people.

This I wouldn’t believe if Jesus Christ came down and told me you were telling the truth. You may be telling the truth but it isn’t commonplace.